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Well, that was a rough week.
If you’re in tech, you know exactly which week I’m talking about. The great AWS us-east-1 outage of October 2025. Where were you when the alerts started firing?
I was in the middle of a demo, and suddenly, nothing worked. Not our app, not our auth, not our CI/CD pipelines. It was a digital ghost town. For eight hours, a massive chunk of the internet — from streaming services and e-commerce sites to, terrifyingly, financial and healthcare platforms simply vanished.
In the days and weeks since, the postmortems…
